Reviews for Forms of explanation

The average rating for Forms of explanation based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-11-07 00:00:00 James Rizza I don't normally read philosophy, but this book, despite its almost maximally vanilla title, is strangely compulsive reading. It gives you a powerful way of figuring out what question is really being asked and finding hidden presuppositions. It critiques reductionism as often failing to provide answers to the questions we really want to ask and explains why higher-level ("structural") explanations are often more useful. The book is very well-written, clear and even lively at times. Chapters 1-4, which contain the core arguments, are quite easy to follow, although familiarity with the concept of state space is important. Chapters 5 and 6 are harder and I plan to reread them in the near future.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-30 00:00:00 Rob Clune Required reading for anyone